Water Ambassadors

Water Ambassadors Canada (WAC) is a faith-based, non-profit organization committed to providing clean, safe drinking water to desperately poor people in developing countries. Working with in-country partner organizations, they arrange for teams to go on short-term trips (7-10 days) to build and repair wells, install water filtration and chlorination systems, construct bio-sand filters, and teach health and hygiene to the locals.
I have the pleasure of working with Kolyn from Next Digital, who provide our tech support and keep the machines running properly. Kolyn just returned from a trip to Central America, where he and a crew of volunteers did some of this important work with Water Ambassadors in providing disadvantaged communities with clean, potable water. When you consider that a child dies somewhere in the world every 90 seconds due to a water related disease, and that women and children spend approximately 125 million hours per day collecting water (yes, per day) , you'll see why it is so important to do this volunteering. Kolyn stated that with the work the Water Ambassadors did, the time to collect water from a safe, clean source went from a 90 minute trip to mere minutes. Way to go Kolyn!

How fortunate are we Canadians to have such an abundance of clean, fresh water, and to have amazing volunteer 'world citizens' like Kolyn?